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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-10-31 21:54:50
subject: file handles

PE> Ah, so you're the author of FH are you?  It was 
PE> distributed (to me, anyway) as a FH.LZH with no 
PE> documentation or author or copyright in it.  So are 
PE> you the author, and is the code public domain (if not, 
PE> then what)?  BFN.  Paul.

PF> Yes,  I am the author.  It is PD,  as is any code I post (by definition;I 
PF> don't label it as such because it comes off as too philanthropic)

Tell that to the Berne convention!

It may seem silly to you, for what seems like a "trivial" bit of
code, but actually that program is THE reference for file-handles, from
where I sit (rightly or wrongly, it is the One True Implementation), and
regardless, I want to be sure that you, me and the Berne convention, all
agree on what I can do with that code.

In this instance, I will be adding fh to OZPD.  BTW, in the recent
file-handle saga, my wife (who works at Qantas) was using FH to do various
file-handle tests.  BFN.  Paul.
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